Month: January 2018

The most recent version of Floating Apps has come with improved support for Android 8. It’s now compiled against Android 8 SDK and so it must respect changes made by Google. And there are two big differences we must consider – changes to floating windows and background services. Changes to floating windows Android doesn’t know… Read more

We are receiving a lot of questions related to floating normal/installed apps, so we’ve decided to introduce the feature also here in a form of a QA blog post. How does floating normal apps work? Floating normal/installed apps is available from Floating Apps 4.4 and it works on Android 7 and newer. It’s a hidden feature… Read more

As you may know, the so-called free-form mode is a hidden feature available from Android 7 that allows floating of normal (installed) apps. It’s built into Android, but it’s made inaccessible by Google by default. Floating Apps helps to enable and access it, but there are still a few catches. Let’s have a look at… Read more

Floating normal/installed apps is available from Floating Apps 4.4 and it works on Android 7 and newer thanks to so-called freeform mode. It’s a hidden feature of Android platform that is inaccessible by default. It’s not provided by Floating Apps and we only help you to enable and use it. Let’s have a look at this… Read more

With Floating Apps for Auto, you can do a lot of things, that were not possible previously, on the infotainment of your car using MirrorLink connected device. Now, you are not limited to just certified apps and you can use many of features available in Floating Apps. However, some users want one single thing –… Read more

Thanks for buying Floating Apps for Auto! Let us guide you through the process of connecting it to your car and using it on the infotainment over MirrorLink technology. Introduction… First, it’s essential that MirrorLink is supported both by your car and your phone. Second, you need some MirrorLink certified app to be installed. There… Read more

Floating Apps 4.3 has introduced custom themes and Floating Apps 4.4 has added floating bubbles that can be customized in themes. Let’s have a look at what we can do with it… I often use the floating browser, it’s running all day on my phone and it’s usually minimized. It would be better if its bubble… Read more

Floating Apps 4.4 brought new Applications. It’s more like a floating control center now as it allows to access also notes, lists, counters, bookmarks, files, installed apps and more. Do you know that you can configure it for your needs? It comes with preconfigured colors and tabs, but it’s easy to change them. There is… Read more

The floating calculator doesn’t have a big keyboard with many scientific functions on purpose. For floating windows, it’s better to keep thing simple and compact and provide advanced features on request. Also, the majority of users (including me) use the floating calculator for simple things like 8 * 9. Yes! I’m not lazy to start… Read more

As you may notice, several versions were released during a few last days. They fixed some issues on Android 6 because there is a bug in the Android itself crashing apps with animations in some specific situations. Also, we’ve finally moved to Android O SDK, so we support the newest standards but it also brings… Read more